Entryway Makeover Reveal

Do you think of your Entryway as a room in your house? You should. It is the FIRST thing that people see when they come in your front door, it sets the entire mood for the rest of your space. I have spent the last week and 1/2 making over my Entryway and I am dying to show you!

This is what it looked like before the makeover:

I love it.

So let me give you the Mandilicious guided tour!

The hands down greatest thing in here is the tandem bicycle art. Do you remember a few weeks ago when I shared my list of 6 of my favorite blogs? Well on that list was Olson Ink. Jonathan is SO insanely talented that I knew he was the man for the job.

All I did was tell him that I wanted a tandem old school bike in cobalt and white. He came up with a 100% custom sketch (that I jumped for joy at!) It was SO much better than anything that I could have dreamed up.

He painted it on a 8’x4’x1” plywood with a wood veneer. The wood was stained a light Honey Blonde color before he started painting. Then when he was all done he cut it into 5 sections.

Isn’t he amazing?! Crap. I don’t use a lot of art in my house because it feels so impersonal but to have something like this painted by one of your friends? Sheesh, it doesn’t get much better than that. And when Jonathan becomes rich and famous I will forever have a custom piece painted by him. (For those interested in having him paint something for you you can email him at jonathan.olson4 at hotmail dot com)

The credenza was a find that my Mother In Law found about a year ago. It was only $35.00 and she used it in my Sister in Law’s bedroom until we decided to change her room up. It had been sitting in the garage the last few months and I knew that it needed to come and live at my house! Not one thing has been changed on it, sometimes you can really score a great piece that just needs a good wipe down! Its probably from the 50’s and I had a really hard time capturing the vibrancy of it. It is almost the exact same color as my kitchen table. It is made out of metal so its really industrial but, helllllllo its teal. Its like a combo made in mismatched heaven.

All of the books and odds and ends as well as the lamp were found thrifting. The cute little stool was a $10.00 Craigslist find and it gives it the raw industrial push that the space needed.

Also, you don’t by chance have a bunch of random chandelier prisms you want to sell do you? Or know someone that might? We need about 220 for a Stake Young Womens Activity. I can buy new ones for a decent price, but I’d really rather have a great mismatched group of vintage ones with imperfections.

Of course it rocks, you did it! What I absolutely love about you is your uniqueness (I’m deeming that my own unique word) in that we can all ‘copy’ projects we see and love but you have the talent and guts to step outside the box and do something totally original and we all end up copying you. You’re one of a kind Mandi. Totally impressed.

You remind me of when “What Not To Wear” started. People were always questioning the new style that Clinton and Stacy told them to wear. They would say it doesn’t have to match, just “go”. And you do that in design beautifully! the stoll is pretty handy, you can sit and drool!

HoLy CrAp!I love it. One tiny missed detail- how did you decide on the tandem bike? I’d LOVE to do something like this, as well as have other art, but I feel like I have to make some sort of *statement*. It has to represent me or something big. But really, I just want something cool on my wall.So for you, something cool, or a deeper meaning?

Holy. Freaking. Crap. I love EVERYTHING you do, but this is like a whole new level of awesome-ness! Seriously. I am dying over that wall art. I love cruiser bikes and that is just plain amaze balls!-Meg

I have a tandem bike that looks almost exactly like that one! We just bought a beach house where the bike now resides (and we’ll get more use from it!)I would love a painting like this one on the large wall over my couch in my beach house family room!!I love your makeover-good job!

Mandi! I have probably already commented on this post but I’m still obsessed with it and I made my own DIY version of the bicycle bc I HAD TO HAVE IT! Hope you’ll stop by and check it out! I linked to your gorgeous entry way post.

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